Cron job only runs for several days, then stops

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#1

After I create a cron job, it only runs for several days, then stops. I tested it several times. I’m on a free account, and there’s limitation on NUMBER of cron jobs, but nothing is said about cron jobs only run for limited TIME, so I consider this a system fault. Why would I pay money for paid hosting to get more cron jobs, if they are so unreliable here?

#2

That should not happen, but sometimes there are jobs that fail.
Our servers are unstable, hostinger ones are very stable, you can upgrade here

#3

I’m not talking about specific executions fail - I have a job setup to run every 10 minutes, and it runs like 4-5 times per hour on average, so skips every 1 in 5 executions or so, but that’s fine, I can live with that. I’m talking about that it runs for several days, then stops exactly at 00:00, which looks pretty intentional to me.

Thanks for the link, but not sure if I want to use your paid services. I have another semi-free Hostinger account (had to send a paid SMS to activate it) and it gives me “552 Disk full” error all the time, and then I have this problem with cron jobs here… Just doesn’t make a good impression. I know it’s free, but shouldn’t it work as expected at least within the boundaries you set for it?

#4

You do not have the hostinger paid account, but the deprecated one, hostinger is a stable platform.

#5

Cron jobs are run in containers. Is you cron job running too long and spans days?

#6

andrius, Nope, it’s a 1-line job that just visits a link, like so:
curl_exec(curl_init(“https://xxx”));

#7

ckhawand, I don’t know how it’s setup on your side, I’m just talking about the general impression.

#8

I have forwarded this issue to our team for investigation.

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#9

andrius, thank you